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A02157	Planetomachia: or the first parte of the generall opposition of the seuen planets wherein is astronomically described their essence, nature, and influence: diuersly discouering in their pleasaunt and tragicall histories, the inward affections of the mindes ... Conteyning also a briefe apologie of the sacred and misticall science of astronomie: by Robert Greene, Master of Arts and student in phisicke. 1585.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1585 (1585)	STC 12299; ESTC S105841	74,857	119

chylde prohybite thee from suche hellishe practises But why do●st thou prattle Pasilla thou seest they could not Graunt not to the trecherous wre●th then so much ●auour as to let him inioye one moment of life but reuenge his wickednesse and 〈◊〉 thine owne woe And with that Valdracko was about to speake but Pasilla incensed with a furious 〈…〉 vp the sword and wounded him sore and after many bloody ●low●s he yeelded vp the ghost When she had thus cr●c●y murthered her father yet iustlye requited the iniu●y she to●k pen and incke and wrote the effect of this tragicall discourse that al might know the cause of this bloody fact whiche fini●hed ●●e fell groueling on the sword and so ended both her life and her miseries Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurie Luna VEnus had no sooner ended her tale but Saturne rising out of his seate as one in a chafe fell into these Collericke tearmes Saturne Venus you play like them which seeking to shoote against the starres are wounded with their owne Arrowes in the fall or like the enuious Porcuntine who coueting to strike others with her pennes leaueth her selfe void of any defence you haue here tolde a tale of Valdracko which sheweth not my crabbed influence but your owne crooked constellation for it was the wilfull forwardnesse of Pasylla in her do●ing fancies and her lasciuious loue in liking her fathers enimy that procured those haplesse euents yea it was the vnbridled affection of staylesse youth not the careful wisedome of setled age that wrought this Tragicall discourse Venus Saturne if old men could blush no doubt all the gods should perceiue thou wert more ashamed in defending so false a cause then in hearing me rehearse the case but I will not say you doate because you are old but dissemble because you are wise so shall I both excuse your fondnesse and commend your wit but this I hope I may say without preiudice that your arguments sauour as much ●f reason as Luna doth of constancie Luna You might haue said Venus as you do of honestie and so all the gods would haue thought his arguments of small force but were his reasons as full of substance as you of light qualities it were against Aristotle to deny either premises or conclusion Venus You learned this Logicke Luna of End●mion but let that passe and seeing Sol is appointed Moderator in this our controuersie I thinke he cannot but say that the haplesse and tragicall euents of this history came by the predominant influence of Saturne for was it not the Melancholy disposition of Valdracko that nourished so long the glowing sparkes of reuenge toward the Conte Coelio and his Saturnine constitution that with a coulored shewe of amitie repayed most faithfull friendshippe with cruell enmitie did hee not carry in the one hande breade and in the other a stone and preferre his priuate iniuries before publike credite or honesty yea did not such melancholicke impressions pester his minde as hee was the cause of the most tragicall and bloodie Massacres Mercurie Truth Venus such is the crabbed disposition of Saturne as they which are borne vnder his influence delight in tragicall treacheries performed with most subtill and secreat attempts so that Caesar feared more the two Saturnists Brutus Cassius then all his forraine foes of any other constitution Iupiter Mercurie you speake without commission I am glad you are so greatly beholding vnto Venus indeede she cannot want counsellours nor champions she allowes them such large fees But I pray you wherein is my Father Saturne so greatly to be blamed was not Valdracko forced by the disordinate affection of his daughter Pandina to his enemies sonne Rodento rather to preuent mishappe by some synister meanes then to bring his hole house and famelie to most miserable decay and ruine Mars Iupiter if large fees may make bolde champions or brawling counsellers you haue greatest cause both to fight chide in Venus behalfe she hath giuen you many a fat present as Europa da●as Alcmena I haue named ynough I think to stoppe your mouth Luna Mars what Iupiter hath gotten I knowe not but what Vulcan got with his net we al know not a fish but a God But it is wel you defend not her honestie but her arguments Sol. Cease from these biting quips they are fit for brabling Sophisters not for the gods and heare my verdict I am of this minde that the hapelesse euentes of this tragical discourse came by Saturnes synister influence that Coelios death proceeded of a malicious and secreat hate that Rodentos balefull mishap spronge from a Saturnine reuenge predominant in the configuration of Valdrachos natiuitie imprinting in his aged minde a melancholie despight which brought to passe this wofull and vnnaturall tragedie This is my censure but nowe sith Venus hath ended her tale Luna I charge you to report her Astronomical description because Saturne will speake more of ran●or then of reason Saturne Sol we haue agreed that your sensure shal stand for a sentence and therfore I wil not inueigh against your verdict but am content to beare the blame of Valdrachos ill nature yet that you the rest of the gods may know that there commeth more harme by disordinate lawlesse Venus then by me I will rehearse an historie wherein you shall easily perceiue that loue sotteth the senses infec●e●h youth destroyeth age and is the very plague both to the minde and body Lunas Astronomicall description of Venus THe starre of Venus right mightie gods is so simplie called as Tullie auoucheth quod ad res omnes veniat and the auncient Arabians call it astrum genitale or prolifioum for the temperate moisture and fauorable influence that it distilleth vppon all humaine bodies for the nature of Venus is to infuse into all inferiour substances while they are ingendered or nourished a certaine Humidatum sucoum or delicate moisture yet notwithstanding so thinne and subtile that it shall 〈…〉 and f●llow more the nature of 〈◊〉 then of showers which natural● and proper qualitie in my iu●gement caused the a●ncient Poets 〈◊〉 attribute this Epitheton vnto Venus A●●a ab alendo Now as concerning her other qualitie of 〈…〉 note that ●●we h●●e in naturall he●●e placed 〈◊〉 that doth cherish and nourish as is Sol and his irra●i at starre Iupiter so we haue set down● another which doth burne and scortch intempera●ely as doeth Mars with his adult and y●llow chollar so likewise in the nature of co●●nesse we doe appoint Venus to be ●om●o●ate and fauorable and Saturne with his melancholy humor to be infortunate and maligna●● of the which opinion are Prolomeus Galen and the Chaldes saying that amongst the Planets there are two fauourable wel affected and friends to nature namely Iupiter and Venus and two Saturne Mars ●●holsome bitter lucklesse and yll affected To confyrme the which I will rehearse Ptolomeus owne sentence●● the end of his first Apotellosma●●● There are foure humours saith he or first

natures whereof two are fruitefull● Fortunate and luckie tha● is to say heate moisture by which all things ●o increase prosper The other two dismall maligne and dangerous namelie colde drinesse by which all thinges are weakened and ruinate The auncient Astrologers constitute Venus and Iupiter temperate in nature for their heat and moisture Saturne Mars intemperate for the nipping cold of the one the burning inflamed and adust heate of the other And thus farre Ptolomeus himselfe by whose verdite we are induced to thinke and affirme that the influence of Venus of moist without any excesse with a smal and temperate warmnesse which the Poets perhaps respected whē they fained Venus to come of the foame of the sea calling her Aphrodite but Euripides thinks she is so called quod Aphrones si●t and of an imperfect mind that suffer themselues to be ouercome by Venus allurements Of y e faculties she doth challenge vnto her y ● appetitiue of humors Phlegme but yet doul●e vnsauory natural yea such as Asclepiades affirmeth y ● may easily be changed into bloud and for the natiue heat may be easily decocted and thus much for her essential description Nowe as concerning the peculiar affections of those men in whom she is predomynant They be pleasantly disposed and indued Attic● qu●dam lepore knowing rather the manners of their friends then hating them delighting in flowers and precious oyntments carrying about them the purse of Cupid tyed with the blade of a Leeke scratching their head with one finger and to vse the Latin prouerbe molle peruncti Lesbiantur Corinthiantur eating Lettice and stalking on their typtoes Lidio more viuentes careful to encrease beautie and somewhat tickled with selfeloue carrying Honny in their mouthes and like Spanyels flattering with their ●ayles in their right eares bearing oyle hauing twinckling eyes and soft delicate haire apt to get children and giuen to propagation applying these minds to songs sonets addicted to pittie mercie and fauour Et in v●ramuis aurem vtrunque oculum Dormientes The peculiar diseases to this starre are Cathars Coryse Branchy Lethargies Palsies Apoplexies Gonorrhea pass●o obstructions of the raines bladder belly with paines in the secreat parts quotidian feuers paines in the heade● Lieuteria diarrhea diabete dropsies other more proceeding of crudities excesse and abundance of Phlegme windinesse imbecillitie of heate perfrigerations such others As touching their pulses they be smal slow soft their sweat vnsauorie vrine pale and thinne their deiections white moist and 〈◊〉 of Crudity dreaming for the most part of waters Bathes Fishings Snakes and such like Saturnes Tragedie THe City of Memphis is highly commended for the nourse of good letters because in that place learning was rewarded with her due deserts ignorance as neere as might be so vtterly exiled as euerie Mecanicall man was able to yealde a reason of the principles of his science In this Citie famous in those dayes for learning and vertue dwelled an infamous strumpet called Rhodope descended of good parentage and of comely personage honorable for her birth and renowmed for her beautie but her outward hue was so spotted with inwarde vice as her praise was not such for the perfection of the body as the discredit was for y e lasciuious disposition of her mind which was so stained with wanton affections that I thinke Venus her selfe coulde not haue past her in vanities This Rhodope racking her honestie to maintaine her pompe and pride forgetting shame and conscience two vertues long since exiled from Venus Court set her bodie to sale and in the prime of her yeares became a professed courtesan so that for the appointed price euery stragling straunger might pray vppon such lothsome Carrion This shamelesse strumpet tooke small delight to be seene in the Citie but when shee went abroade to take a view of the streetes shee past in such sumptuous ●ort that the Citizens a long time after had matter ynough to talke of her magnificence It so fell out on a day that shee determined to go sport her selfe at a fountaine which is dedicated vnto Venus a miles distance from Memphis whether shee went accompanied with such young youthes as were snared in her alluring bewty being come to the place which for the scituation seemed to bee an earthly paradise after they had refreshed thēselues with stoare of dainty delicates which were prouided by Rhodope they past away a great part of the day with amorous conceiptes and pleasant parles till at last the weather waring somewhat warme Rhodope desirous to bath her feet in the coole fountaine caused one of her maides to pull of her shooes which were imbrodered with gould and richly be sette with stones which she diligently doing as she laid them on the greene grasse verie necessarie to helpe her mistresse ●off with her hoase an Eagle soaring a loft and seeing the glistering of the goulde soused sodainely downe and carried away her right shooe in her gripe which sodaine sight greatly amazed Rhodope marueiling what this straunge and prodigious chaunce shoulde portende beginning straight coniecturally to construe this happe to the worst but her companions were of an other opinion for some of them saide it was a signe of good lucke other that it was a token of honour and dignitie All her selfe excepted saide the best because women are most pleased with praises and promises and shee rested to thinke the best whatsoeuer in outward countenance she did pretende Well after they had diuersely descanted vppon this euent shee with her company returned to the Citie of Memphis but the Eagle with the shooe tooke her flight to the Court of Psamnetichus who at that verie moment was walking alone in his priuie Garden assoone as shee came ouer the kings heade not by chance but by some infortunate and dismall destinie she let the shooe fall and with a marueilous crie soared againe into the ayre which soodaine and prodigious sight so amazed the olde king and so astonished his senses as they which gazed at the gastlie heade of Gorgon At last come to himselfe he tooke vp the shooe marueiling whether it did belong to some heauenly Nymph or some mortall creature The shape pleased his fancy the glistring beautie thereof delighted his eyes to be short Cupid the accursed sonne of Venus seeing him at discouert drewe a boult to the heade and strooke Psamnetichus at the verie heart which perced him so deepe that hee beganne not onely to like the shooe but to loue the owner of such a pretious Iewel feeling a tickling affection to enter into his minde whereuppon he began to smile at his owne follie that he should be so fond now in his age to doate more then he did in his youth Where by the way wee may note the despightfull mallice of Venus who perceiuing that her infortunate and ill affected influence is hindered by a vertuous disposition and that although her accursed configuration be of great